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after a year – how’s the CAT doing?

come, and hear for yourselves. come to the suaram forum ‘CAT ruling – change or the same?’ on this saturday, 14 march (english) and 14 march (mandarin). see poster for details (english poster). (NOTE: for the uninitiated, CAT stands for ‘competent, accountability and transparent’ – the motto of the penang govt.)

do we need the second penang bridge?

as part of our citizen/video journalism workshop, we had to do assignments. one of the assignment was to come out with an article on penang. i choose to write about the second penang bridge. please read about it in my citizen journalism blog, 'reflections'.  (updated: read from below instead) in the …

march 8 – 1 year after (part II)

UPDATED:  the videos from our team: lim guan eng’s speech others continuing from my previous post. the first speaker was PAS adun from permatang pasir by the name of hamdan. (sorry most speakers i did not get the full name or what their post. if you want detailed name/post of …

sad… sad day :( BN took over perak

why oh why, oh why, the sultan did not want to dissolve the state assembly? why oh why the sultan allow  a man tainted with so many scandals and allegations to lead the government? why? why? so sad… so sad… i would have thought the sultan would have been wise …

penang cultural fest 2008

actually first read about this about a week ago in ‘straight talk’  khoo kay peng’s blog but i had forgotten about it until today when i saw the poster at malaysiakini. announcing the penang cultural fest 2008, which begins in 2 days time – on 4 dec. with an exhibition …

big bang? yeah bang away the money!

penangites who passed the esplanade past few days, must be appalled to suddenly see a gargantuan structure sprouting out of nowhere all of a sudden. as i passed by esplanade quite often during my office lunch time, yes i notice the structures. didn’t really know what it was until last …

leafleting ISA flyers in public

is there such a word as ‘leafleting’ anyway? well i first learned of that word from suaram penang a year back when they organised a ‘leafleting’ campaign something about protest against privitisation of hospital. the leafleting was done in the general hospital, and of course i was there and had …